Detail of mural from the tomb chapel of Nebanum, Thebes, Egypt Late 18th Dynasty, around 1350 BC Nebamun is shown hunting birds, in a small boat with his wife Hatshepsut and their young daughter, in the marshes of the Nile. Such scenes had already been traditional parts of tomb-chapel decoration for hundreds of years and show the dead tomb-owner ‘enjoying himself and seeing beauty’, as the hieroglyphic caption here says.
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Detail of mural from the tomb chapel of Nebanum, Thebes, Egypt Late 18th Dynasty, around 1350 BC Nebamun is shown hunting birds, in a small boat with his wife Hatshepsut and their young daughter, in the marshes of the Nile. Such scenes had already been traditional parts of tomb-chapel decoration for hundreds of years and show the dead tomb-owner ‘enjoying himself and seeing beauty’, as the hieroglyphic caption here says.
Photo ID: 013222
Author: David Tipling / Birdphoto.co.uk
David Tipling / Birdphoto.co.uk
Photo size: 16.1 Mpixels (46 MB uncompressed) - 4928x3264 pixels (16.4x10.9 in / 41.7x27.6 cm at 300 ppi)